Former Milan and Manchester City player Robinho will go to prison in Brazil after the supreme court ruled the nine-year sentence for rape in Italy must be served.
The retired player was convicted in 2017 of raping a young woman at a nightclub along with several of his friends in Milan in 2013.
He was sentenced to nine years in prison, but as Brazil does not have an extradition agreement with Italy, he refused to return to Europe.
Instead, the Brazilian supreme court was tasked with deciding whether Robinho would be forced to serve the sentence in his homeland instead.
The verdict came through today and the 40-year-old will have to go behind bars.
It was a majority decision, although two members of the supreme court had voted against it.
Robinho spent four seasons at Milan from 2010 to 2014 and it was during this time at the club that the rape occurred.
The ex-Real Madrid star went on Record TV this week to suggest he was convicted “unjustly” because of “racism” in Italy.